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Beyond Today

Louis Theroux (again)

Beyond Today

BBC

News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this re-release of one of our favourite recent episodes, Tina speaks to filmmaker Louis Theroux. Back in July he came in to tell us about his documentary Surviving America’s Most Hated Family and why, 13 years on, he’s still interested in the Westboro Baptist Church. We also talk to him about nudity, why he’s not into hallucinogenic drug rituals, the problem with no-platforming and how he became the most widely meme-d journalist in Britain.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.

0:05.0

This is Beyond Today, on a bank holiday.

0:08.0

We'll be back to normal tomorrow, but today we're republishing one of our most popular episodes.

0:15.0

Now we've had some really interesting guests on the podcast over the past few months.

0:19.0

If you scroll back through our timeline you can find Charlie Brooker the creator of

0:24.0

Black Mirror and Stacy Dooley but one of my favorites was this one.

0:28.8

Hello I'm Tina Dehealey Welcome to Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.

0:37.0

Every now and then we invite a guest into the studio and today it's someone I'm a

0:47.5

huge fan of, Louis Thru. You don't need the Fed votes. It's up to you. I don't

0:52.4

I should like the way they feel on my head, but

0:54.0

it feels like something's hugging my head. I wanted to talk to Louis about how he's become

0:58.3

one of the most well-known, well-loved, and widely maimed journalists in Britain.

1:04.3

You'd never take for granted that people appreciate what you do,

1:08.1

even in the form of mugs with me with tits.

1:13.0

Louis's been making documentaries for more than 20 years now and has reached cult status.

1:19.0

His latest film is called Surviving America's Most Hated Family.

1:23.6

I've been to Topeka, Kansas, to do a follow-up on a cult.

1:29.6

Well, I shouldn't call them a cult.

1:31.0

I call them an extreme religious group called the

1:32.7

Westboro Baptist Church.

1:34.4

Louie went back to find out how they've dealt with the death of their leader and

1:38.4

how 13 years on the world has changed around them and also for the rest of us.

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